The Making of Modern Medicine Available now

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Transplant

30/30 In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.

First broadcast: 16 Mar 2007

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The Crippler

29/30 Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.

First broadcast: 15 Mar 2007

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Free at the Point of Need

28/30 The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.

First broadcast: 14 Mar 2007

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It Looks Like a Miracle

27/30 The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.

First broadcast: 13 Mar 2007

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You Are What You Eat

26/30 How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.

First broadcast: 12 Mar 2007

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Near Pavilions

25/30 The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.

First broadcast: 09 Mar 2007

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Flinging the tropics open to civilisation

24/30 What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?

First broadcast: 08 Mar 2007

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The ministry of healing

23/30 Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.

First broadcast: 07 Mar 2007

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Transforming Plague

22/30 When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.

First broadcast: 06 Mar 2007

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Culturing the germ theory

21/30 How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.

First broadcast: 05 Mar 2007

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